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The option to play a sound when the track changes is very useful.. and has led to me to wonder if it might be cool to have an option to use the MS speech api to actually announce the track #, or filename, or track title. Could be cool -- and useful for those of us listening to audiobooks while going to sleep, or for visual impaired people.

Hmmm...cool idea...and something I should be able to implement. Thanks for the idea.

actually, since I created an idea for an audio application a couple of days ago (here), maybe this application can do it with a minor tweak.

Since trout is already an audio player, maybe this can be done easily. If I load in a short file (mp3, or wav), and I set it to "Repeat File" so that it loops over and over, could you have an option or could you add a feature for gapless looping? Meaning exactly that: there is absolutely zero pause between the end of the track and the beginning of the next cycle. That way, i can load a drum sample in, and play it on a continuous loop and essentially use it as my drummer while I practice piano. But it must be gapless because these drum loops are made the exact right length, and any gap will throw it off.

v1.0.2 build 269 + Added a Text-To-Speech option to the "New track notification" options. (Thanks, mouser) + Added an option so you can choose what happens to the toaster popup when you click on it. Currently, you can make it stay on-screen until it loses focus or you can make it disappear immediately. Tools, Options, Toaster tab. (Thanks, app103) * Improved the "Repeat file" mode to do gapless looping. (Thanks, superboyac) ! Add URL GUI showed up incorrectly under Windows 7 Beta. (Thanks, temp01) ! Album art showed up incorrectly on startup if Trout was installed on the root of a drive. (Thanks, temp01)

For the record, SAPI must be installed for the TTS stuff to even have a chance at working. I believe that SAPI is installed by default on XP. Otherwise, you can download from it from Microsoft. I've no idea if it works on Win9x/ME (I would guess not).

v1.0.3 build 4 + Added a basic lyrics display. Lyrics are provided by http://www.lyricwiki.org so, to make use of this feature, you will need to have "Allow internet access" enabled under Tools, Options. Once you have that done, choose "Show lyrics window" from the View menu. Some notes: 1) The lyrics window will even work for streaming music sites that send the artist/title info. 2) The lyrics window also can function in a stand-alone manner. Simply enter the artist and track title and click the search button. 3) If you do a search on just an artist, a list of all songs that LyricWiki has lyrics for will be returned.

Ah, completely forgot about this place. Was really wondering wassup with Trout.

One minor thing that I just stumbled into: changing playlist background color doesn't start up with the currently set color (possibly a custom one). If we just want to slightly alter the current shade, it would be quite hard to. Could we have it so that the color picker dialog starts up with the current color already selected?